Re: NewEra, Powerbuilder or Visual Basic?

On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Billy Wheeler wrote: } At 06:26 PM 6/17/96 -0400, Vidya Baliga wrote: } >I am a programmer with a small software company working with cobol on a } >unix platform. My boss wants to move to making software in Windows } >environment. We are considering the above mentioned tools. Are there any } >advantages of one over the other two? Which do you prefer and why? I would } >appreciate an e-mail as we have to make a decision by the end of this } >week. } } Dear Vidya, } } VB: Cheap, good Windoze integration, limited functionality, not OO. } PB: Cheaper than NE, not as powerful, not (as far as I'm aware) OO. } NE: Expensive, fully OO (well,...), very powerful, still has some quirks. } } If you're a small software house and selling small packages, I'd say VB } (ugh!) is the way to go. The biggest problem that I have with VB is t> } ------- hi !, what billy wrote is exactly write about newera. May be newera 3.0 may come without the quirks that it is showing presently and the cost for runtime of newera 3.0 is also an issue at informix right now. Hope is the best thing in the world.